Galley mechanism for repeating and non-repeating line-casting typographical machines.



M. HARTMANN & 0. SOHIMMBL. GALLEY MECHANISM FOR REPEATING AND NON-REPEATING LINE CASTING TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINES. APPLICATION FILED OGT. 24, 1913.

1,085,567. Patented Jan. 27, 1914.

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' 1 M. HARTMANN & O. SOHIMMEL. GALLEY MEGHANISM FOR REPEATING AND NON-REPEATING LINE CASTING TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINES.

APPLIGATION FILED 00124, 1913.

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Patented J an. 27, 1914.

M. HARTMANN & 0. SCHIMMEL. GALLEY MECHANISM FOR REPEATING AND NON-REPEATING LINE CASTING TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 24, 1913.

Patented Jan. 27, 1914 5 SHEETS-SHEET a.

TED STATES PATENT OFFTQ.

MAX HARTMANN, 0F BgERI IN-NEUKOLLN, AND OTTO SCHIMMEL, 0F BERLIN, GER- MANY, ASSIGNOBS TO MERGENTHALER LINOTYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

GALLEY MECHANISM FOR REPEATING AND NON-REPEATING LINE-CASTING TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 27, 1914.

Application filed October 24, 1913. Serial No. 797,022.

To all whom it may concern: 4

Be it known that we, MAX HARTMANN and O'r'ro SGHIMMEL, citizens of the German 'Empire, and residing, re pectively, at 39 This invention relates to galley mechanism for line-casting typographical machines capable of casting a series offull measure lines or slugs from the same composed row of matrlces or other mold for the printing edge of each line of the series orsin le 11 measure lines from successively di erent composed rows of matrices.

Heretofore all the lines of all the series have been successively delivered, line by line, through a single port which is of the same length as a full measure line, into a single galley. This practice' has necessitated the subsequentmanual ordination of all the lines into columns according to the copy from which the row of matrices was composed.

A plurality of galleys is known in the art but only in connection with a full measure line consisting of a corresponding plurality of short measure lines cast synchronously but separately and kept separate throughout their passage from the respective molds to the respective galleys. Further this known arrangement is without adjustability in respect of sequence of full measure lines and the galleys into which they shall be successively delivered because the said lines are not in series.

The principal object of the present invention is to dispense with the above mentioned manual ordlnation of all the lines into columns, and a secondary one Is to enable one and the same machine to act as either a repeating or non-repeating machine atthe will of the operator.

The accompanying figures illustrate two.

preferred constructional forms of the application of the invention to a M'ergenthaler machine of the type known commercially under the trade mark Linotype.

Figure 1 is 'a side elevation tom the right third lines.

hand side of a machine adapted to cast a series of ,three lines; Fig. 2, a perspective view from the front of the switch showing 1t on' the point of swinging the adjustable chute out of communication with the bot-' tom galley into communication with the one next above it; Fig. 3, an elevation of Fig. 2 from the left hand of one of the said forms;

and Fig. 4, is a perspective view from the front of the other adapted to cast a series of two lines.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 3, 1 is a line being ejected from the single port 2 formed in a guide (of usual construction) of the casting mechanism (notsh'own), and ready to drop toward the galleys 3, 4, 5,.as soon as it is clear of the bottom 6 of the port, the said galleys being of the same size and arranged one above the other with their receiving ends in the same vertical plane, all

as heretofore.

According to the constructional form shown in the figures last mentioned, the galleys 3 to 5 together constitute the plurality of ,galleys, 71.0., one galley for each line of a series, the bottom one, 3, to receive the first lines of all the series, the next higher one, 4, to receive the second lines thereof, and the next higher one, 5,-to receive the These galleys are fixed and preferably equidistant from each other. The adjustable chute above mentioned ma belong enough to extend from the mou of the port 2 up to the galleys, but it is preferred to interpose a series of fixed chutes ,7 to 9 between them and it, thereby shortening the movements necessary to adjust it. There are as many of these fixed chutes as there are galleys, the delivery end of each registering with the receiving end of the respective galley. Each one has a brake spring (not shown) adjustably held in the path of the descending lines by a screw 10 to check their passage through it.

11 is the adjustable chute; It is pivoted at 12 under the port bottom 6, its delivery mouth and the receiving mouths of the intermediate chutes 7 to 9, being arcual to the pivot 12 as a center in order that the adjusting movements of the chute 11' shall not take its deliver mouth out of engagement withthe'series of chutes 7 to 9. The chute 11 has as many operative positions as there series of chutes 7 to 9 are so arranged that when the former is hanging freely from its pivot 12, the delivery mout of the chute '11 is in register with the chute 7. It is moved out of register with the latter and into mg ister with the chutes 8 and 9, successively, by a switch fixed to the machine below the level of the port 2 and between it and the first elevator (not shown), because the latter organ has a reciprocating motion in close connection with the line casting mechanism.

15 is the switch frame; 16 a rod turning in the end plates thereof; 17 an arm fast on the right hand of the said rod; 18, a sector fast on the opposite end of the rod 16 outside the frame 15, and having as many teeth 19 in its convex edge as there are galleys, less one. With each tooth 19, there is combined a stop 20 fast on the sector 18, and 21 is a latch working in the frame 15 and from which it is protruded bya spring 22 into the path of the stops 20, so that whenever the sector 18 is turned upward far enough, it will forcibly pass the. latch 21 and the latter will engage behind it and lock it. The pitch of the teeth 19 is proportionate to the an lar distance of the operative positions of t e chute 11.

23 is a finger projecting from the first elevator to engage the convex edge of the sector 18 each time the elevator descends and each time it rises. The connection be tween the said finger 23 and the elevator is such that the former is pushed back by the relative stability of the sector 18 during a descent of the elevator and can influence th sector only during a rise. lhe front edge of the arm 17 is always in engagement with the chute 11 through a roller 24 on the side of the latter. It is during the registration of the chute 11 with the chute 7, that the first line of a series, dropping from the port 2, passes through them both into the galley At that time the upper tooth 19 projects into the path of the finger 23, and as the elevator rises, this finger turns the sector 18 accordingly, thereby making the arm 17 put the chute 11 in register with the chute 8 and therefore in communication with the galley 4, in which position the latch 21 locks it. The second line of the same series, dropping from the port 2 in due course, passes through both chutes 11 and 8 into the said galley 4. The just described turning of the sector 18 leaves the next lower tooth 19 in the path of the finger 23 and this, during the next rise of the elevator, en-

gages the said tooth, and turns the sector delivery of all the lines of one series into.

the respective galleys. The operator then by means of a lever 26 fast on a rod 27 which has a cam 28 fast on the opposite end of itand engaged by an extension 29 of the latch 21 when the latter is locking the sector 18, retracts the latch, and by the en- .gagement of the lever 26 with a stud 30 on the sector 18, returns the. latter, and the arm 17 with it, to their original positions, in time for the first line, say 1, of the next series to pass through the chutes 11 and 7 into the galley 3.

For each additional line in a series, there must be an additional galley, fixed intermediate chute, and tooth 19. and stop 20 on the sector 18. A pin 31 slidable in the frame 15 by a handle 32 to engage under the sector 18, so as to prevent it dropping to its horizontal position, adapts a mechanism made according to the form just described, to deliver-to-galley a series consisting of fewer lines by one than the series for which the said mechanism was 'made. The said mechanism is adapted to deliver-togalley, full measure lines cast from successively different composed rows of matrices, as distinguished from a series of full meas. ure lines cast from the same composed row of matrices, by the finger 23 being connected to the first elevator in such a way that it can be moved manually out of engaging position with reference to the sector 18, and back again when the lines are to be cast in series. The means -by which a line is pushed along its galley up to thosev already 1n the latter, forms no part of the present invention. A suitable automatic lever having a pusher for each galley is well'known and may be advantageously adopted. According to the two galley constructional form illustrated in Fig. 4, a block 33 having its top alined with, and in the same horizontal plane as, the port bottom 6, is reciprocated by a link 34 along a bar 35 projecting to the front from the machine frame. The link 34 is connected to the first elevator by vany suitable device that will reciprocate the move the block 33 along the bar 35 up to the port 2 and hold it there while the next line is beingejected' through that port on to the said block. As soon as the line is on the latter, its lengthrests against a slightly inclined support 38 fast to the block 83. The subsequent rise of the elevator moves the block 33 past the front galley 39, in so doing engaging the line on it, with the fixed finger 40 which sweeps the said line off the block 33 and support 38, whereupon the lever 36 makes the front pusher 41 on it, push the said line into the said galley 39.

The terms 'matrix, matrices are to be read throughout this specification as the alternative of type die, type dies, respectively,

Having described our invention we declare that what we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a slu casting machine, the combination of a p uralit of galleys, adapted to receive slugs from tli e casting mechanism of the machine, and a slug delivering device movable into operative relation to one or another of the galleys after a predetermined casting operation.

2. In a slug casting machine, the combination of a pluralit of galleys, adapted to receive slugs from t e casting mechanism of the machine, a slug delivering device mov able into operative relation to one or another of the galleys, and automatic means for effecting the movement of said device after a predetermined casting operation.

3. In a slu casting machine, the combination of a p urality of galleys, adapted to receive slugs from the casting mechanism of the machine, a slug delivering device movable into operative relation to one or another of the galleys, and automatic means" for effecting the movement of said device after each casting operation.

4. In a slu casting machine, the combination of a pIurality of galleys, adapted to receive slugs from the casting mechanism of the machine, a guide'provided with a port or opening through which the slugs are ejected and a pivoted intermediate chute 'or switch to deliver the slugs to one or another of the galleys.

5. In a slu casting machine, the combination of a p urality of galleys, adapted to receive slugs from the casting mechanism of the machine, a guide provided witha port or opening through which the slugs are ejected, a movable intermediate chute or switch and automatic means for moving the switch into operative relation to the several galleys successively.

6. In a slug casting machine, the combination of a plurality of galleys, adapted to receive slugs from the casting mechanism of the machine, a corresponding plurality of fixed chutes or switches registering therewith, and an adjustable chute or switch to deliver the slugs to one or another of the fixed chutes. Y

7. In a slu casting machine, the combination of a p urality of galleys, adapted to receive slugs from the casting mechanism of the machine, a corresponding plurality of fixed chutes or switches registering therewith, an adjustable chute or switch to deliver the slugs to one or another of the fixed chutes, and automatic means for adjusting the chute or switch periodically. 8. In a slug casting machine, the combination of a plurality of galleys, an adjustable chute or switch to deliver the slugs to the several galleys in succession, and automatic means for adjusting the chute, the said means comprising a reciprocating finger, a toothed sector axially fast to the adjustable chute and engaged by the said finger at each of its reciprocations, and means for locking hoth sector and adjustable chute after each engagement.

9. In' a slug casting machine, the combination of a plurality of galleys, a slug delivering device movable into operative relation to the several galleys successively, and automatic means for effecting the movement of said device, the said means comprising a reciprocating finger and connections whereby the reciproc'ations of the finger-Will efi'e'ct the movement of the slug dellvering device.

10. In a slug casting machine, the combination of a'plurality of galleys, a slug delivering device movable into operative relation to theseveral galleys in succession and means for preventing the movement of said device into operative relation to one of the galleys when desired.

11. In a slug casting. machine, the combination of a plurality of galleys, a slug delivering device and automatic mechanism for moving said device into operative relation to the several galleys successively, the said mechanism comprising means whereby the movement of said device may be confined to less than the full number of galleys in the plurality.

12. In a slug casting machine, the combination of a plurality of galleys, an adjustable chute or switch to deliver the slugs to the several galleys in succession, and automatic means for adjusting the chute, the said means comprising a reciprocating finger, a toothed sector axially fast to the adjustable chute and engaged by the said finger at each of its reciprocations, an arm axiallyfast to the said sector and engaging with the adustable chute, and means for locking both sector and adjustable chute after each engagement.

13. In a slug casting machine, the combination of a plurality of galleys, an adjustable chute or switch to deliver the slugs to the several galleys in succession, and autoof its reciprocations, means for locking both sector and adjustable chute after each engageinent, and means for returning both the said chute and sector to their normal position when required.

14. In a slug casting machine, the combination of a plurality of galleys, an adjustable chute or switch to deliver the slugs to the several galleys in succession, and automatic means for adjusting the chute, the said means comprising a reciprocating finger, a toothed sector axially fast to the adjustable chute and engaged by the said finger at each of its reciprocations, an arm axially fast to the said sector and engaging with the adjustable chute, means for locking both sector and adjustable chute after each engagement and means for returning both the said chute and sector to their normal position when required.

15. In a slug casting machine, the combination of a plurality of galleys, an adjustable chute or switch to deliver the slugs to the several galleys in succession, and automatic means for adjusting the chute, the said means comprising a reciprocating finger, a toothed sector axially fast to the adjustable chute and engaged by the said finger at each of its reciprocations, the number of teeth on the sector being oneless than operative positions of the adjustable chute and their angufor locking both sector and adjustable chute after each engagement and means adapting that sector to make the said chute cooperate with less than the full number of galleys in the plurality.

In witness whereof We have hereunto set our hands in the presence of tWo Witnesses.

MAX HARTMANN. OTTO SCHIMMEL. Witnesses:

HENRY HAsPEn, WOLDLEMAR HAUPT.

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